Toilets

Disney endured major difficulties in Paris and received a huge backlash in its practices from the French claiming American cultural imperialism. They faced backlash when it came to the dress code standards which were deemed unacceptable and against France’s labour laws. It is alleged some training was perceived as invasive and totalitarian which was the opposite in Asia and were easily implemented with the view of Disney’s core values as the “happiest place on earth” (thejhannanarepublic, 2015).…

No one likes to throw away money. But that is exactly what you do when you live in a rented apartment. You pay a monthly rent and you never see that money again. Yes, you do get a roof over your head, and hopefully all the utilities you need, such as electricity, heat, and water, but still, you are paying for things you will never own. Instead that money is going into someone else’s pocket. In other words, you are throwing away money. It is disappearing out of sight and you have nothing to…

capable, confident person remain in a career which she obviously hated so much? I have seen it ALL TOO OFTEN! Despite the daily complaints about eating on the bell, cramming a stale biscuit and cold coffee in while on duty, holding on to go to the toilet all day because there is simply no time, bouts of gastro, parent’s razor blade, jelly-fish-stinging comments, behaviour management, poor decision making in schools all impacting classroom teaching and…

Stomach Flu One Saturday morning I woke up. I was excited to go to my friend's house because we had planned it earlier that week. So I got up and did my morning things like taking a shower, eating and brushing my teeth. After that I watched TV until it came close to the time for me to head over to his house. Once I had arrived, I announced myself with an excited “Hello!” and my friend returned the hello. We ended up playing video games like MineCraft and drinking Mountain Dew for the rest of…

An emotional piece by Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father, recounts the brutality of the Khmer Rouge regime and how she and some members of her family survived the mass killings. The autobiography is told from Loung Ung’s point of view as an adult looking back at what happened from ages five to nine. The events of this tragedy happens in three parts: before the Khmer Rouge takeover, under the Khmer Rouge reign and life afterwards. While living under Khmer Rouge regime, Ung tells of life in…

“If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission” (Feldman). This quote helps represent the characters in the book The Handmaid’s Tale. This book is about Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. During the book, Handmaid’s jobs are to have children for couples that are having trouble conceiving. She just like many others want to escape to freedom Canada, but at the end of the book Offred gets taken…

revolution. The only kind of revolution that’s nonviolent is the negro revolution. The only revolution in which the goal is a desegregated lunch counter, a desegregated theater, a desegregated park, and a desegregated public toilet: you can sit down next to white folks on the toilet. That’s no revolution. Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.…

blush and look at the other direction. Calling them baka or what not. Like a tsundere person would. "Hey, Kid." "Yes, (Y/N)." "You seem to be daydreaming a lot. Is it because that toilet paper again? I told you not to worry about it." Kid's eye started to twitch. "No.." Was all he could mumble out. Remembering that toilet paper making him want to go back home and check if it was symmetrical. "If it's not that than what's with the long face Kid." "It's nothing really." (Y/N) stopped walking and…

Giving up is easy, anyone can just say, “sup? I’m done. I’m tired of doing this. I can’t continue. I feel sick,” and give up on whatever they are doing. But not giving up is hard, which is something that could bring anyone success. In the realistic novel Flush by Carl Hiaasen and the fantasy novel Poison by Bridget Zinn, both novels presents a life-lesson to the reader not to give up easily. In the novel Poison, the main character and protagonist Kyra, tried to save her kingdom from Arlo, the…

Art critic Clement Greenberg once said, “I don’t see art as having ever, in a real sense, affected the course of human affairs.” The sentiment here is that any “art” which has an impact on the world becomes propaganda or craft. However, the people who postulate this sentiment are the ones who use art for the crudest of purposes: the art market. It’s the same logic as saying that education has no purpose outside the world of work and consumption. When art becomes liberated from the demands of the…